Amanda D. Lotz, Ph.D.

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1 Amanda D. Lotz, Ph.D. University of Michigan Department of Communication Studies 5445 North Quad 105 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI (734) (Office) EDUCATION Ph.D. (2000). University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio/TV/Film; Gender and Sexuality track; Women s Studies Doctoral Portfolio. Dissertation: Televising Feminist Discourses: Postfeminist Discourse in the Post-Network Era. Dissertation Co-chairs: Horace Newcomb and Janet Staiger M.A. (1997). Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Department of Telecommunication. Thesis: Creating a Generation: An Analysis of Media Discourse and Representation of Generation X. Advisor: Christopher Anderson B.A. (1996). DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana Major: Communication Arts and Sciences; Minors: Women s Studies, Political Science. Thesis: Communication Satisfaction, Team Status, Team Type, and Greek Affiliation as Predictors of Female Athlete Attrition. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Communication Studies Faculty Associate, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Denison University Fellow, Programs in Film and Media & Am. Culture Studies, Washington University in St. Louis AWARDS and HONORS Associate Professor Support Fund Award Awarded travel and student support to revise The Television Will Be Revolutionized and The Television Was Revolutionized Rackham Faculty Grant and Fellowship Award 2006 Awarded travel and technology funding and summer fellowship to pursue work on Redefining Television book project. Participant, Visiting Professor Program, Advertising Education Foundation August 2005 Selected to participate in two-week faculty internship with media buying agency Universal- McCann. Faculty Development Grant Recipient, National Association of Television Program Executives May 2005 NATPE facilitated placement and funding to do field research on the upfront buying process. Coltrin Professor of the Year, International Radio and Television Society Selected as winner of case study competition.

2 Denison University Research Foundation Grant Summer 2005 Received $2300 grant to fund field research on the upfront buying process. Faculty Fellow, National Association of Television Program Executives January 2004 Selected to attend NATPE conference featuring sessions on current industry issues and opportunities to interact with industry executives. Denison University Research Foundation Grant Summer 2003 Received $3200 grant to fund research observing Upfront Presentations in New York and Television Critics Association tour in Hollywood. Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation Faculty Seminar November 2002 Selected as one of twenty faculty members to attend Academy seminar featuring panels, presentations, and interactions with Hollywood production community, networks, and programmers. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis Programs in Film and Media Studies and American Culture Studies Phi Beta Kappa, DePauw University Inducted Spring 1996 Harold E. Fellows Scholarship, Broadcasting Education Association One of four recipients in national scholarship competition recognizing study and work in broadcasting. G. D. Crain Foundation Media Scholarship, DePauw University Annual scholarship recognizing exemplary use of media facility. Clarence Barron Scholarship, DePauw University Four year scholarship recognizing academic excellence. Communications Activity Grant, DePauw University Grant renewed yearly recognizing high school excellence in forensics and continued college communication activity. PUBLICATIONS Lotz, A. D. (August, 2014). The Television Will Be Revolutionized, revised 2 nd edition. New York: New York University Press. Lotz, A. D. (March, 2014). Cable Guys: Television and American Masculinities in the 21 st Century. New York: New York University Press. Lotz, A. D. (2007). The Television Will Be Revolutionized. New York: New York University Press. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 Reviews: Banks, M. (2009). Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 7(2): Murphy, C. (2008). Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television 62: Pitcher, K. C. (2008). Journal of Communication Inquiry 32(3): Zrzavy, P. (2008). Spectator 28(1): Lotz, A. D. (2006). Redesigning Women: Television after the Network Era. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Reviews: Savage, A. M. (2010) Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 30(3):

3 Thrift, S.C. (2008). H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Merskin, D. (2008). Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 85(2): McLean, J. (2008). Political Communication, 25(2): Williamson, L. (2007). Screen 48: Shapiro, K. (2007). Journal of Popular Culture, 40(5): Fleming, J. (2007). Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 51(2): Kitch, C. (2006). Journal of Communication, 56(4): Noll, N. (2006). The Bloomsbury Review, November/December, Clark, N., and Russell, K. M. (2006). Journalism History, 32(3), Havens, T. and Lotz, A. D. (2012). Understanding Media Industries (New York: Oxford University Press). Gray, J. and Lotz, A. D. (2012). Television Studies: A Short Introduction (London: Polity). Lotz, A. D. (ed.). (2009). Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era. New York: Routledge. Reviews: Thompson, R. (2011). Critical Studies in Television 6(1): Young, S. (2011). Continuum 25(1): Segal, A. (2010). Popular Communication 8(2): Debrett, M. (2010). New Media and Society 13(1): Refereed Journal Articles Draper, J. and A. D. Lotz, (2012). Making Sense of Homophobia in Rescue Me: Working Through as Ideological Strategy Television and New Media 13(6): Havens, T., A. D. Lotz, and S. Tinic. (2009). Critical Media Industry Studies: A Research Approach. Communication, Culture and Critique 2: Lotz, A. D. (2008). On Television Criticism : The Pursuit of the Critical Examination of a Popular Art. Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture 6.1: Lotz, A. D. (2007). How to Spend $9.3 Billion in Three Days: Examining the Upfront Buying Process in the Production of US Television Culture. Media, Culture and Society 29.4: Lotz, A. D. (2007). The Promotional Role of the Network Upfront Presentations in the Production of Culture. Television & New Media 8.1: Lotz, A. D. (2005). Seventeen Days In July at Hollywood and Highland: Examining the Television Critics Association Tour. Journal of Popular Film and Television 33.1: Lotz, A. D. (2004). Using Network Theory in the Post-Network Era: Fictional 9/11 U.S. Television Discourse as a Cultural Forum. Screen 45.4: Lotz, A. D. (2004). Textual (Im)Possibilities in the U.S. Post-Network Era: Negotiating Production and Promotion Processes on Lifetime s Any Day Now. Critical Studies in Media Communication 21.1: Reprinted in Television: The Critical View, 7 th ed. edited by Horace Newcomb (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), Lotz, A. D. and S. M. Ross. (2004). Bridging Media Specific Approaches: The Value of Feminist Television Criticism. Feminist Media Studies 4.2: Lotz, A. D. and S. M. Ross. (2004). Toward Ethical Cyberspace Audience Research: Strategies for Using the Internet for Television Audience Studies. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 48.3:

4 Lotz, A. D. (2003). Communicating Third-Wave Feminism and New Social Movements: Challenges for the Next Century of Feminist Endeavor. Women and Language 26.1: 2-9. Lotz, A. D. (2001). Postfeminist Television Criticism: Rehabilitating Critical Terms and Identifying Postfeminist Attributes. Feminist Media Studies 1.1: Lotz, A. D. (2000). Assessing Qualitative Television Audience Research: Incorporating Feminist and Anthropological Innovation. Communication Theory 10.4: Book Chapters Lotz, A. D. (2014). Building Theories of Creative Industry Managers: Challenges, Perspectives, and Future Directions. In Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries, edited by Derek Johnson, Derek Kompare, and Avi Santo (New York: New York University Press). Lotz, A. D. (2013). Knowing Characters: House and Narrative Complexity in Episodic Television. In How to Watch TV, edited by Jason Mittell and Ethan Thompson (New York: New York University Press). Lotz, A. D. and H. Newcomb. (2011). The Production of Entertainment Media. In A Handbook of Media and Communication Research, 2 nd revised ed. Ed. Klaus Bruhn Jensen. New York: Routledge. Lotz, A. D. (2009). Industry-Level Studies and the Contributions of Gitlin s Inside Prime Time. In Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries. Eds. Vicki Mayer, Miranda Banks, and John Caldwell, New York and London: Routledge, pp Lotz, A. D. (2009). National Nightly News in the On Demand Era. In Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era. Ed. Amanda D. Lotz. New York: Routledge. pp Lotz, A. D. (2007). If It is Not TV, What is It? The Case of U.S. Subscription Television. In Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting. Eds. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris and Anthony Freitas. New York: New York University Press. pp Lotz, A. D. (2007). Must-See TV: NBC s Dominant Decades. In NBC: America s Network. Ed. Michele Hilmes. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp Lotz, A. D. (2007). Theorizing the Intermezzo: The Contributions of Postfeminism and Third Wave Feminism. Third Wave Feminism: Expanded, 2 nd ed. Eds. Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howe, and Rebecca Munford. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp Lotz, A. D. (2006). In Ms. McBeal s Defense: Assessing Ally McBeal as a Feminist Text. In Searching the Soul of Ally McBeal: Critical Essays. Ed. Elwood Watson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. pp Lotz, A. D. (2005). Segregated Sitcoms: The Separation of Black and White Comedy Images and Audiences. In America Viewed and Skewed: Television Situation Comedies. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder. Albany: SUNY Press. pp Lotz, A. D. (2003). Barricaded Intersections: Any Day Now and the Struggle to Examine Ethnicity AND Gender. In Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers. Ed. Rebecca Ann Lind. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. pp Haggins, B. and Lotz, A. D. (2007). HBO Comedy. In The Essential HBO Reader, Eds. Gary Edgerton and Jeffrey Jones. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. pp Newcomb, H. and Lotz, A. D. (2002). The Production of Media Fiction. In A Handbook of Media and Communication Research. Ed. Klaus Bruhn Jensen. New York: Routledge. pp

5 Encyclopedia/Reference Chapters Lotz, A. D. (2013). Prime-Time Drama. Oxford Bibliographies in Film and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press. Lotz, A. D. (2009). Entry on Television. Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Ed. Dale Southerton. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. Lotz, A. D. (2008). Entry on Television. International Encyclopedia of Communication. Ed. Wolfgang Donsbach. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Lotz, A. D. (2007). Entry on Popular Culture: Broadcasting, Radio, and Television. Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Ed. Bonnie G. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press. Lotz, A. D. (2004). Entries on: Ally McBeal; Darren Star; Lifetime Television; Sex and the City; Women s Television Network. Encyclopedia of Television, 2 nd ed. Ed. Horace Newcomb. New York: Routledge. Unrefereed Journal Articles and Writings Lotz, A. D. (2014). Assembling a Toolkit. Media Industries Journal, 1.1. Gray, J. and Lotz, A. D. (2013). A Robust and Dynamic Field. Media, Culture & Society, 35.8: Lotz, A. D. (2013). Review Essay: Television in These Times. Cinema Journal. Lotz, A. D. (2013). What Old Media Can Teach New Media, in online support materials for Spreadable Media, by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green (New York: New York University Press). Lotz, A. D. (2011). Television Studies? Critical Studies in Television 6.1: Lotz, A. D. (2010). US Television and the Recession: Impetus for Change? Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture 8.3 Lotz, A. D. (2009). Interactive TV Too Early: The False Start of QUBE. The Velvet Light Trap. Lotz, A. D. (2009). What is U.S. Television Now. Special Issue, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: End of Television?: Its Impact on the World (So Far), eds. Elihu Katz and Paddy Scannell. Lotz, A. D. (2008). New Media Policy? Journal of E-Media Studies 1.1. Lotz, A. D. (2006). Columnist for Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media < Volume 4, May-September Lotz, A. D. (2005). Studying and Teaching U.S. Television in a Time of Change. Feedback 46.2: CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ( ) Lotz, A. D. (2013). The Process of theory Building in Media Industry Studies. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, IL. Lotz, A. D. (2012). We Must Be Outlaws: The Unbearable Burden of Straight White Men, American Studies Association Annual Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lotz, A. D. (2012) Understanding Media Industries. Teaching Media Industries Workshop. Copenhagen, Denmark. Lotz, A. D. (2012). Jockularity and the Homosocial Space: Policing Masculinity Through Humor. Society

6 for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA. Lotz, A. D. (2012). Media Industry Studies: Beyond the Case Study? Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA. Lotz, A. D. (2011). Imagining Post-PC Humor. Unboxing Television: Television and Comedy. Madison, WI. Lotz, A. D. (2011). Stories of their Own: The Gender Politics of Cable s Male-Centered Dramas. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans, LA. Lotz, A. D. (2010). Analyzing Gender on Television: Current Challenges and Future Directions. Sexism and the Media Conference. Ann Arbor, MI SERVICE Professional Cinema Journal Editorial Board Media Industries Editorial Board Popular Communication: Int l Journal of Media & Culture Editorial Board Palgrave European Film and Media Series Advisory Board Cinema Journal Book Review Editor Society for Cinema and Media Studies Nominating Committee Society for Cinema and Media Studies Television Studies Interest Group, Steering Committee Grant Referee Canadian Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council December 2007 Journal Article Referee Conference Paper Referee Book Manuscript Reviewer Television & New Media, Feminist Media Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Journal of Advertising, Communication Theory, Global Media Journal, Western Journal of Communication, South Asian History and Culture, European Journal of Communication, Poetics, American Behavioral Scientist, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies International Communication Association, National Women s Studies Association, Global Fusion 2001 New York University Press, University of Illinois Press, Duke University Press, University of California Press, University of Toronto Press, SUNY Press, Blackwell, Routledge, Sage External Review Committee University of Utah (2014), DePauw University (2001) Conference Co-Organizer Television and Television Studies in the 21 st Century September 2013 Listing of Institutional Service Available Upon Request Invited Talks, Presentations, and Consulting Transforming Hollywood: The Futures of Television Conference. Panelist. University of California, Los Angeles April 4, 2014

7 Generation(s) of Television Studies Symposium. The Cumulative Narrative of the Cumulative Narrative University of Georgia April 12, 2013 Council of Estonia National Public Broadcasting Conference, Matters of the Life, Death, and Afterlife of Television October 25, 2012 Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School, Masculinity in US Cable Dramas: Feminism after the New Man October 24, 2012 University of Copenhagen, Masculinity in US Cable Dramas: Feminism after the New Man October, 2012 Consulting Researcher, Connected Viewing Initiative, UC Santa Barbara Media Industries Project, funded by Warner Bros New York University, Imagine There Are No Channels April 13, 2011 Consulting: IFC/Sundance Opportunities and Challenges of Post-Network Television April 13, 2011 Guest Scholar, 37 th Annual Undergraduate Honors Conference, DePauw University April DePauw University, Post Second-Wave Masculinity on US Television April 7, 2011 Visiting Scholar, 14 th Annual Film and Media Symposium, Kansas University February 17-9, 2011 Honors Scholar in Residence, Muhlenberg College October 27-8, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Reigning Men?: Some Meditations on Process September 24, 2011 Consulting Researcher, Convergence Cultures Consortium, MIT November Consulting: Competing Values Jumpstart Detroit Public Television July 2009 Google, Why Television Isn t Dying August 2008 University of Arizona, Why Television Isn t Dying March 2008 Consulting: Competing Values Jumpstart NBC Universal The Future of Television March 2008 DePauw University, Sexual Politics and Television Heroines February 2006 Washington University in St. Louis, Feminist Television Criticism in the Post-Network Era January 2004 Washington University in St. Louis, New, New Women, Convergence, and Conglomeration April 2001 COURSES TAUGHT University of Michigan Comm 121: Evaluating Information and Analyzing Media I, pre-requisite major requirement Comm 251: Understanding Media Industries, mid-level major elective Comm 419: Seminar in Research Methods, upper-level elective Comm 458: Media Criticism, upper-level elective Comm 459: Critical Issues in Television: Post-Network Era, upper-level seminar Comm 471: Gender and Media, upper-level elective Comm 474: History of Broadcasting and Television, upper-level elective Comm 810/822: Feminist Media Studies/Gender and Media, graduate elective Comm 827: Analyzing Media Industries, graduate elective Denison University Comm 200: Research in Communication, lower division, major/minor requirement; Comm 225: Radio and Television in America, lower division, general education elective;

8 Comm 301: Media Programming and Economics (Institutional Media Analysis), elective; Comm 229: Mediating Gender and Sexuality, lower division, general education elective; Comm 239: Ethnicity and Racism in U.S. Media, lower division, general education elective; Comm 414: Critical Issues in Television: Post-Network Era, senior seminar. Washington University in St. Louis Film 110: Race and Ethnicity in American Television, a first-year seminar; Film 350: History of Electronic Media, major requirement, cross-listed with history; Film 365: Women in American Media Culture, elective, cross-listed with women s studies; AmCS 469: Television in American Culture: , graduate course in evening division. PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE Evening Edition News Staff DePauw University Sep May 1995 Participated in a student produced, live, weekly newscast. Held positions of: executive producer; lead reporter; anchor; and production including: teleprompter, audio, floor directing, and camera. News Intern WFND TV-47, Findlay, Ohio Summer 1993 Edited video, extensive script writing, and production responsibilities. The Forum Exec. Producer and Anchor DePauw University Jan.-May 1994 Created and ran a 30 minute newsmagazine that aired on community access channel. Sideline Reporter DePauw/Wabash Television Network Sep.-Nov Reported sideline interviews and updates live to 1.5 million viewers. RELATED EXPERIENCE Freedom of Information Intern Society of Professional Journalists, Greencastle, IN. Sep Aug Compiled and edited regular newsletter on freedom of information news; planned, coordinated and created materials for 1996 Ted Scripps Leadership Retreat and other projects promoting SPJ. Public Policy Intern Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, Washington, D.C. Summer 1995 Worked with regulatory and legislative divisions performing issue research, advocacy support, administrative tasks, and participated in issue development sessions.